The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville District and the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Quality Assurance Oversight Team (QAOT) hosted the 2008 Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) Water Quality and Chemistry Monitoring Quality Assurance Workshop on April 16-17, 2008 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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16-17 Apr 2008 - CERP Water Quality and Chemistry Monitoring Quality Assurance Workshop

Workshop Presentations Day 1:

• Welcome and Introductions (1.2mb, PDF)
  Ming Chen, SFWMD; John Hess, USACE
• Welcome Remarks (3 mb, PDF)
  Linda Lindstrom, ERA Department Director, SFWMD
• Quality Assurance Oversight Team – Purpose and Objectives and Overview (1.3 bm PDF)
  John Hess, USACE
• Update of the CERP Quality Assurance Systems Requirements (182 kb, PDF)
  John Hess, USACE
• Relevant Water Quality CERP Guidance Memoranda (1.1 mb, PDF)
  Scott Huebner, SFWMD
• Toxic Substances Screening Process – Mercury and Pesticides (CGM 42) (1.2 mb, PDF)
  Mark Gabriel/Richard Pfeuffer, SFWMD
• Update to FDEP QA Rule (62-160 F.A.C.) (1.7 mb, PDF)
  Andy Tintle/Silky Labie, FDEP
• Finding a Laboratory – Low Bid or High Bid? (3.9 mb, PDF)
  Andy Tintle/Silky Labie, FDEP
• Quality Control Samples and Your Data, The Telling Story (392 kb, PDF)
  Hand-outs for Quality Control Samples and Your Data (526 kb, PDF)
  Rosanna Buhl, Battelle

Workshop Presentations Day 2:

• Welcome and Introductions, and Short Discussion on the QASR for the benefit of laboratory personnel (1.3 mb, PDF)
  Ming Chen, SFWMD; John Hess, USACE
• Understanding the Field Sampling Assessment Process (703 kb, PDF)
  Andy Tintle, FDEP, John Moorman, SFWMD
• Understanding the Laboratory Assessment Process - Part 1 (146 kb, PDF)
  
  Understanding the Laboratory Assessment Process - Part 2 (952 kb, PDF)
  David Splichal, USACE, Linda Hoffman, HSW Engineering
• Challenges for the Analytical Laboratory for Performing Low Level Analyses (2.3 mb, PDF)
  Advanced Environmental Laboratories, Chuck Ged
• Laboratory Performance for Low-level Analysis (Nutrients) (3 mb, PDF)
  Dave Struve, SFWMD
• Overview of Data Validation Process (FL ADaPT) (57 kb, PDF)
  Julio Paredes, Laboratory Data Consultants

For additional information, please contact Ming Chen in the Environmental Resource Assessment Department of the SFWMD at 561-682-6252, michen@sfwmd.gov, or Jeffrey Hendel at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at 904-232-1563, jeffrey.r.hendel@usace.army.mil.

Content Coordinators:

• Erica Robbins, USACE
  erica.a.robbins@usace.army.mil